The Friday Poem: As it Happens by Brian Turner

In Queen’s Crescent off Malden Roadone’s not likely to meetmany once famous men and women,or current nearly-notablesin with a chance of becominghousehold names in Britain.

‘There comes a time,’ an old geezertold me, ‘when you realiseyou’ve gone about as far as youcan go.’ And I’m thinking, I knowwhat you mean, mate, and it won’tbe long before it’s up and away

back down south where skies areless cloudy most days, and you’vea niche of sorts, so it’s said by thosewho know about such things whereI happen to live, for better or worse,in the so-called middle of nowhere.

Brian Turner

Photograph by Mike White

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